A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . ukes Hospital and the Presbyterian Ilosijital he wasalso appointed Visiting Surgeon to these death occurred on March 6, 1877. Gurdon Buck was the first to popularize the treat-ment of fractures of the thigh by the use of the weightand pulley. This method had been by of Philadelphia, but had received scarcelyany recognition at the hands of the Dr. Bucks contributions to periodical medi-cal literature the followin
A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . ukes Hospital and the Presbyterian Ilosijital he wasalso appointed Visiting Surgeon to these death occurred on March 6, 1877. Gurdon Buck was the first to popularize the treat-ment of fractures of the thigh by the use of the weightand pulley. This method had been by of Philadelphia, but had received scarcelyany recognition at the hands of the Dr. Bucks contributions to periodical medi-cal literature the following deserve to be mentioned: liesearches on Hernia Cerebri following Injuriesof tlie Head; Oedomatous Laryngitis SuccessfullyTreated by Scarification of the Clot lis and l^piglot-tis; A New F(;ature in the Anatomical Structureof the Oenito-urinary Organs not hitherto Descritx;d;Badly United Fracture of the Thigh, etc.; Post-fascial Abscess, Originating in the Iliac Fossa, ttc.;?Ininroved Method of Tnvating Fractures of theIhigh, etc.; and of Aneurysm of the Femoral.\rtery, for which Ligatures were Successfully .Applied. Fig. 1166.—Gurdon Buck. to the Femoral, Profunda, and External and CommonIliac .Vrteries. In addition to the above he pub-lished a monograph (D. .-^ppleton & Co., New-York, 1876) entitled: Contributions to ReparativeSurgery. The following incident, which was communi-cated by Dr. Moreau Morris in 1899, shows howstrongly Dr. Buck was devoted to his professionalduties: While a student of his, and attending, duringhis daily visits to the New York Hospital, as his amanu-ensis, I was fortunate in .seeing and assisting himin practising the operation of scarification of edemaglottidis, whicli he had originated and successfullypractised during his hospital service. This rather a rare one, no opportunity had itself for performing an operation in privatepractice until the autumn of 1849. when I was calledin great haste to a young Irish labor
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